Nextdoor
Nextdoor is a neighborhood-focused social network that connects people who live in the same geographic area. It's designed for local communities to share information, recommendations, safety alerts, and organize events within their neighborhoods.
Score generated by AI agents based on publicly cited evidence and reviewed by the project maintainer. Not independently validated. Last assessed 2026-09-27. Score revised 2026-09-27: 57 → 50.
Score History
Timeline events are AI-curated from public reporting. Score trajectory is derived from documented events.
Nextdoor launched publicly as an ad-free, address-verified private network for neighborhoods, backed by venture funding and focused on growth rather than revenue. The main strains were on content and governance: CEO Nirav Tolia's 2014 felony hit-and-run charge, and the 2015 racial profiling crisis in Crime & Safety posts, which led to a redesigned posting form in 2016.
After testing sponsored posts in summer 2016, Nextdoor unveiled its first US ad and sponsorship program in August 2016 and settled on in-feed advertising. It absorbed UK rival Streetlife in 2017, exposing migrating members' street addresses by default, raised real estate sponsorship prices in 2019 and added Local Deals. Its postal invitations sent in members' names drew scam warnings, though it also added the Kindness Reminder. Tolia handed the CEO role to Sarah Friar in 2018.
COVID-19 lifted engagement 80% in two weeks and pushed Nextdoor toward one in three US households, deepening its local network effect. Volunteer moderators' removal of Black Lives Matter posts in June 2020 exposed its opaque moderation, invitation letters kept alarming recipients, and strong ad pricing lifted ARPU 58% by Q2 2021 as the company prepared its SPAC listing and began federal lobbying.
Listing via SPAC at a $4.3 billion valuation brought pressure for revenue as the stock slid. Nextdoor launched self-serve ads in 2022, authorized a $100 million buyback six months after listing, and saw its notification maze documented (130+ clicks, 'Heisensubscribe'). In November 2023 it cut 25% of staff as a 'commitment to shareholders' while buybacks were under way. It also began publishing transparency reports, and Meta's Neighborhoods clone shut down.
Co-founder Nirav Tolia returned as CEO, President and Chair as the board expanded the buyback authorization to $250 million; Nextdoor then spent $75.5 million on buybacks in 2024 against a $98 million loss and cut 38 jobs. A report of a 2015 harassment allegation against Tolia, a securities class action and SPAC suits followed, while weekly users slipped and self-serve ads approached half of revenue.
The July 2025 'NEXT' redesign added real-time Alerts, publisher News and AI Faves, followed by the NXDR rebrand, a 12% layoff and AI ad tools. After a dip to 21.0 million, weekly users reached a record 22.9 million in Q2 2026, and management says revenue growth came without more ad load. Shareholder returns resumed with a new $100 million buyback, and the August 2026 ban on business self-promotion from personal accounts pushed businesses toward Business Pages and paid lead alerts, drawing a backlash.
Alternatives
Neighborhood-specific Facebook Groups serve the same function — local announcements, lost pets, buy/sell/free — with a larger existing user base. Easy switch if your neighbors already have a Facebook Group (search for '[your neighborhood] neighborhood'). Downside: Facebook's own data practices are arguably worse than Nextdoor's. This is a lateral move, not an improvement.
Dimensional Breakdown
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Dimension History
Timeline (49 events)
Nextdoor launches in the United States
After a year-long private beta in which neighbors in more than 175 neighborhoods across 26 states set up Nextdoor sites, Nextdoor launched publicly in October 2011 as a private social network for neighborhoods. Every member had to verify that they lived in the neighborhood, by a postcard with a code, a phone call to a listed home number, a credit card billing address, or an invitation from a verified neighbor, establishing the hyperlocal model that became its core differentiator and primary lock-in mechanism.
CEO Nirav Tolia charged with felony hit-and-run
Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia was charged with felony hit-and-run over an August 2013 crash on Highway 101 in Brisbane, California, that left a woman injured. According to the victim's civil complaint, Tolia moved into her lane while overtaking another car, her car spun into the median, and Tolia and his wife saw the crash they had caused but left the scene; Tolia told police he fled because he was 'shaken'.
Racial profiling crisis emerges on platform
After an East Bay Express cover story (October 7, 2015) documented white Oakland residents using Nextdoor's Crime & Safety section to post unsubstantiated 'suspicious activity' warnings about Black neighbors, CEO Nirav Tolia published a blog post titled 'Racial Profiling: The Opposite of Being Neighborly' calling profiling unacceptable and promising changes. The Oakland group Neighbors for Racial Justice, which had pressed Nextdoor for stronger action, was scheduled to meet company executives.
Nextdoor tests sponsored posts ahead of its first US ad program
Campaign US reported that Nextdoor, then active in about 106,000 US neighborhoods, was rolling out its first revenue-generating advertising products in the US: it had been testing sponsored posts from a handful of unnamed advertisers that summer and would unveil its US sponsorship and ad program in August. A Healdsburg, California neighborhood had recently carried paid posts from Personal Capital, a financial planning company whose closest office was 70 miles away.
Nextdoor redesigns posting flow to reduce racial profiling
After a grassroots campaign by Oakland's Neighbors for Racial Justice and pressure from city officials, Nextdoor piloted a new Crime & Safety posting form: users who mention a person's race must add two other physical descriptors, and an algorithm checks the description for racially charged terms and length, blocking the post until it is revised. The company told NPR the pilot had cut racial profiling posts by roughly 50 percent; it later claimed a 75 percent reduction.
Diginomica documents Nextdoor's 'email marketing worst practices'
Diginomica's Jon Reed, himself a volunteer Nextdoor Lead, documented classes of email users could not control, such as Lead alerts when a member leaves the neighborhood, 'one-time' promotional emails that fit no unsubscribe category, and 'unsubscribe' links that led to a preferences page rather than unsubscribing. Nextdoor support pointed him to its privacy policy: 'Certain member-related administrative emails cannot be turned off; the only way to end those is to delete or deactivate your account.'
Streetlife users' home addresses exposed after Nextdoor acquisition
After Nextdoor bought UK rival Streetlife and set it to close, Streetlife members were urged to move to Nextdoor. Get Safe Online warned that while Streetlife showed only a first name and local area, Nextdoor displayed members' names, street and house number to their neighbourhood by default; some users closed their accounts, and the BBC reported a woman whose violent ex-partner learned her address after both migrated. Nextdoor apologised and said details were visible only within the immediate neighbourhood network.
Nextdoor turns to advertising, projects 'tens of millions' in 2017 revenue
Fortune reported that after testing several money-making ideas, Nextdoor had settled on advertising: in-feed ads similar to Facebook's that users can comment on, like or share, bought by brands such as AT&T and State Farm to target specific neighborhoods. Nextdoor had collected millions of dollars in ad revenue over the previous year, and CEO Nirav Tolia projected ad revenue in the 'tens of millions' for 2017. The company planned classified-style listings for real estate firms and paid leads from local service providers.
Salon documents Nextdoor toxicity and content quality decline
A Salon article, 'Neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor makes us regret the internet', described how the platform had devolved into a breeding ground for petty grievances, and recounted a Seattle Nextdoor thread about a neighbor's Seahawks cannon that ended in a violent altercation at a local library. The parody Twitter account Best of Nextdoor, which went viral in April 2018, had far more followers than Nextdoor's official account (76,000 to 28,600).
Sarah Friar named to replace Tolia as CEO
Nextdoor named Square CFO Sarah Friar as its next CEO, starting in December 2018, succeeding co-founder Nirav Tolia, who had announced in July that he would step aside and remain board chairman. TechCrunch noted that Nextdoor, which had raised $285 million, needed to generate more revenue before it could go public; it had begun offering paid real estate listings about a year earlier and also sold targeted ads.
Nextdoor raises real estate ad prices, drawing criticism
Nextdoor raised prices for its real estate Neighborhood Sponsor feature: one Coldwell Banker agent's Denver-area ZIP code went from just over $100 a month to $375 at the start of 2019, and other agents complained the cost was not justified by leads. Nextdoor VP of communications Steven Wymer said the product was about 'brand building at a hyperlocal context' and called it a 'common misconception' that it should work like lead-generation services such as Zillow.
Nextdoor raises $123 million at $2.1 billion valuation
Nextdoor raised $123 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital, lifting its valuation above $2 billion, and said it would use the money to grow internationally after launching in Sweden and Denmark, adding to its markets in the US, UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Australia. More than 236,000 neighborhoods used the platform, and the company said it expected revenue to double again in 2019. Faster geographic expansion deepened network-effect lock-in in new markets.
BuzzFeed documents Nextdoor as hub for contractor scams exploiting trust
BuzzFeed News reported how Nextdoor had become a hotbed for contractor and caregiver scams exploiting the sense of trust created by the neighborhood model. In Westminster, Colorado, 72-year-old Pam Ruffin paid $11,800 to a fence company recommended by several Nextdoor users and never saw the contractors again. A National Council on Aging expert said the false sense of security leads users to skip due diligence, and Nextdoor shows members' full names and addresses to neighbors by default; Nextdoor said it relies on neighborhood leads to flag content alongside automated scam detection.
Nextdoor sends postal mail on users' behalf without clear consent
Nextdoor's user acquisition program offered members 100 free personalized invitation letters mailed to their closest neighbors, carrying the member's name and street. In the Netherlands, residents received letters naming neighbors who did not remember sending them, prompting Dutch police departments and consumer organizations to issue warnings, and the Consumentenbond criticized Nextdoor's privacy policy. Malwarebytes said Nextdoor had asked users' permission but called sending mail in someone's name 'unorthodox' and poorly communicated.
Nextdoor rolls out Kindness Reminder to curb hostile replies
Nextdoor launched Kindness Reminder in the US, prompting members before a potentially offensive or hurtful reply goes live and offering to show the Community Guidelines or let them edit. The feature uses machine learning trained on comments neighbors had flagged. Nextdoor said that in early tests 1 in 5 people who saw the prompt edited their comment, resulting in 20% fewer negative comments.
Local Deals feature launches, deepening business monetization
Nextdoor launched Local Deals, allowing businesses to pay for targeted promotional placements in specific neighborhoods. The feature used Nextdoor's address-verified user base as a selling point, enabling hyper-local targeting at the neighborhood level. This expanded the monetization model beyond sponsored posts and began shifting organic business visibility toward paid placements.
COVID-19 drives 80% surge in user engagement
As COVID-19 spread across the US, Nextdoor said user engagement had risen 80% in two weeks, especially in hard-hit areas such as the greater New York City area and Seattle. CNN described volunteers using the platform to offer grocery and medicine pickups for quarantined neighbors and to share which stores had cleaning products, alongside a steady flow of anxiety and some conspiracy theories.
Nextdoor censors Black Lives Matter posts during protests
Following George Floyd's murder, volunteer moderators across the country deleted posts about Black Lives Matter, following outdated rules that classified racial justice discussions as off-topic 'national conversations.' CEO Sarah Friar acknowledged 'it was really our fault' and pledged reforms including bias training for moderators and updated content policies. The incident exposed the risks of relying on unpaid volunteer moderators for content governance.
Nextdoor invitation letters written as if from neighbors alarm Texas residents
KWHI reported that a Chappell Hill, Texas family received a Nextdoor invitation letter that read as if a local neighbor had sent it, with a join code that expired in seven days and a neighbor return address, though it was postmarked in Fullerton, California. The Washington County sheriff said he would consider it a scam; Nextdoor said such letters are sent only from verified members with their permission.
Facebook launches Neighborhoods clone to compete with Nextdoor
Facebook launched Neighborhoods, a Nextdoor clone, in Canada and said it would soon roll out for US users to test. Users create a separate neighborhood subprofile, with dedicated Facebook moderators and deputized members moderating conversations.
Nextdoor announces $4.3 billion SPAC merger to go public
Nextdoor announced it would merge with Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II in a SPAC deal valuing the company at $4.3 billion, with $270 million in private investment from T. Rowe Price and Baron Capital Group. CEO Sarah Friar said the deal would fund international expansion and new product features. The company would trade under the ticker symbol 'KIND' on the NYSE.
Nextdoor reports Q2 2021 revenue up 66% as ad pricing rises
Nextdoor reported second-quarter 2021 revenue up 66% year over year to $45.8 million, with average revenue per weekly active user up 58% to $1.57 while weekly active users grew 5% to 29 million, building on the pandemic engagement surge of Q2 2020. CEO Sarah Friar credited strong enterprise ad pricing and accelerating growth from small and medium-sized businesses.
Deseret News reports neighborhood apps like Nextdoor skew crime perceptions
A Deseret News feature examined how neighborhood apps such as Nextdoor feed a gap between perceived and actual crime: Pew found 78% of Americans believed crime was rising in 2019 even as long-term data showed declines. Temple University media professor Larisa Kingston Mann said 'these apps profit from encouraging a sense of fear in a community', and Rutgers sociologist Sarah Lageson described how digital neighborhood watch groups can cross into vigilantism.
Nextdoor publishes its first annual transparency report
Nextdoor published its first annual Transparency Report, covering 2021, with data on its volunteer community moderation model, how quickly moderators removed reported content, and the government requests it received. UK Digital Minister Chris Philp welcomed the move as embracing the spirit of the UK's coming online safety laws.
Nextdoor launches self-serve ad platform for small businesses
Nextdoor introduced Nextdoor Ads, a self-serve platform that lets small businesses with a free business account pick a goal, build an ad, choose a target audience, set a daily budget and duration, and publish in a few steps, with a performance dashboard, without a sales representative. This expanded the advertiser base beyond managed accounts, accelerating the shift from organic business visibility toward paid placements.
Board authorizes $100 million share buyback six months after listing
Nextdoor's board authorized a program to repurchase up to $100 million of Class A stock, expiring June 30, 2024, about six months after the company's November 2021 SPAC listing. It became the first of a series of buyback authorizations that continued through the 2023 and 2025 layoffs, according to the company's 2025 annual report.
Facebook shuts down Neighborhoods clone, validating Nextdoor's moat
Meta confirmed it was shutting down its Neighborhoods feature, the Nextdoor clone launched in 2020 and expanded across the US and Canada. Facebook said it would refocus on Groups for local content and its TikTok-competing discovery engine. The failure of the world's largest social network to replicate Nextdoor's hyperlocal model demonstrated the strength of address verification and network effect lock-in as competitive barriers, even against a vastly better-funded rival.
Taylor.town 'Heisensubscribe' analysis catalogs Nextdoor notification dark patterns
A widely shared analysis on Taylor.town found 16 pages of notification settings and no 'disable all' button, so unsubscribing from everything 'demands hundreds of clicks'. It coined 'Heisensubscribe' for unlabeled switches that leave it unclear whether a click subscribes or unsubscribes, and criticized vague 'See What You Missed' emails that reek of 'FOMO' and 'driving engagement'.
Nextdoor opens self-serve video and lead gen ads to all advertisers
Nextdoor announced that from Q4 2023 brands of all sizes could run self-serve video campaigns in Nextdoor Ads Manager with no spend limit, using videos up to 3 minutes long and ad copy up to 800 characters with dynamic local substitution (which it said gave a 17% performance lift). It also introduced lead generation ads for all advertisers, expanded contextual targeting through Oracle Advertising, and new offline ad solutions.
Nextdoor lays off 25% of staff as 'commitment to shareholders'
Nextdoor announced it would cut 25% of its workforce, roughly 200 employees per a company spokesperson, alongside third-quarter results showing weekly active users up 6% to 40.4 million, revenue up 4% and a $38 million quarterly loss. CEO Sarah Friar said the company 'must follow through on our commitment to our shareholders' by right-sizing the business. The cuts were part of a plan to reduce personnel expenses by up to $60 million a year; CFO Mike Doyle resigned the same day.
Co-founder Nirav Tolia returns as CEO, consolidating power
Nextdoor announced that co-founder Nirav Tolia would return as CEO, President, and Chairperson of the Board, replacing Sarah Friar. The triple role consolidated executive control in a single individual. Tolia formally assumed the role on May 8, 2024, with a $500,000 base salary plus significant stock awards. The return came after the stock had declined approximately 85% from its SPAC listing valuation.
Nextdoor expands buyback authorization to $250 million
Alongside announcing Nirav Tolia's return as CEO, Nextdoor's board added $150 million to the existing share repurchase authorization, for a total of $250 million, of which about $77 million had been executed, and extended it to March 31, 2026. The first $77 million had been spent in the period that included the November 2023 cut of 25% of staff.
Report: former employee says returning CEO Tolia sexually harassed her in 2015
Weeks after Nirav Tolia's return as CEO was announced, The Information reported that a former Nextdoor employee alleged to a company-appointed investigator and to the board in summer 2018 that Tolia had sexually harassed her in 2015. The company said it had investigated and taken 'corrective action'.
April 2024 restructuring cuts 38 jobs in a year of $75.5 million buybacks
In April 2024 Nextdoor carried out a restructuring that affected 38 full-time employees, and in June it abandoned floors of its San Francisco headquarters, taking $22.8 million in impairment charges. Over 2024 it repurchased about 31 million shares for $75.5 million, in a year it reported a $98 million net loss.
Attorneys investigate Nextdoor for sharing location data with Microsoft
Attorneys working with ClassAction.org launched an investigation alleging Nextdoor used tracking technology to collect users' precise location information and share it with Microsoft without explicit consent. Because Nextdoor's member agreement requires arbitration, the case was pursued as mass arbitration rather than a class action. State and federal privacy laws provide for damages of $100 to thousands of dollars per violation.
CHI 2024 study documents hyperlocal surveillance patterns on Nextdoor
Research presented at CHI 2024 analyzed 1,537 community surveillance posts from public Nextdoor posts in Atlanta, Georgia, and found that publicly disclosing information about perceived outsiders, especially for petty crimes, was most prevalent in gentrifying neighborhoods. The authors built a typology of the forms of community surveillance on hyperlocal platforms.
SPAC shareholders sue Nextdoor and Khosla sponsor in Delaware
Two class actions filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery on October 28-29, 2024, later consolidated, allege that Nextdoor, former officers and the Khosla Ventures SPAC sponsor misled KVSB stockholders who did not redeem their shares before the November 2021 merger. Plaintiffs amended the complaint in February 2026; Nextdoor moved to dismiss, with a hearing set for September 28, 2026.
Nextdoor ends its federal lobbying engagement
Invariant LLC, the firm that had lobbied for Nextdoor since 2021 on content moderation, AI and privacy issues, filed a termination report for its Nextdoor engagement dated April 1, 2025. No Nextdoor lobbying filings appear for later periods.
Nextdoor launches complete platform redesign with AI features
Nextdoor released its most significant redesign, adding real-time Alerts for weather, traffic, power outages and wildfires (powered by partners including Weather.com and Samdesk), News from 3,500 local publishers in the US, UK and Canada, and Faves, an AI recommendation feature that CEO Nirav Tolia said draws on 'an LLM for every neighborhood' built from 15 years of neighbor conversations. TechCrunch noted Nextdoor's growth had stalled and engagement declined as the platform became associated with misinformation and racism.
Nextdoor cuts 12% of workforce in second round of layoffs
Nextdoor announced a restructuring including a 12% workforce cut (67 jobs, per Bloomberg) alongside its Q2 2025 results, aiming to reduce annualized operating expenses by about $30 million. Revenue grew 3% to $65 million, net loss was $15 million, and Platform WAU was 21.8 million, up 1% year over year. CFO Matt Anderson resigned effective September 1, and the company targeted quarterly adjusted EBITDA breakeven in Q4 2025.
Nextdoor deploys AI-driven ad optimization and video formats
Nextdoor launched AI-powered ad performance tools through its Nextdoor Advertising Manager platform, including click optimization (134% CTR lift), conversion optimization (35% CPA improvement), and AI-generated ad copy powered by ChatGPT. New geo-personalized image ads automatically insert neighborhood names, and video formats expanded to carousel ads. The tools analyzed 'thousands of performance signals in real-time' with no user-facing transparency.
Court dismisses securities class action against Nextdoor with prejudice
A securities class action filed on February 28, 2024 alleged that Nextdoor and former executives misled investors about growth between July 2021 and November 2022. After a first dismissal with leave to amend, the plaintiff narrowed the case to one statement by former CEO Sarah Friar, and the court dismissed it with prejudice on November 20, 2025. A related shareholder derivative suit was dismissed on January 7, 2026.
Nextdoor audiences opened to programmatic buying through Yahoo DSP
Nextdoor made its first-party, hyper-local audiences of verified neighbors available to advertisers programmatically through Yahoo DSP in December 2025, and in January 2026 added TransUnion audience activation and video for lead-generation campaigns in Nextdoor Ads Manager.
Weekly users fall 5% as Nextdoor posts first positive full-year adjusted EBITDA
Nextdoor reported Q4 2025 revenue of $69 million, up 7%, and Platform WAU of 21.0 million, down 5% year over year, while reaching positive adjusted EBITDA for full-year 2025 for the first time. On the earnings call management said ARPU rose 13% without an increase in ad load and attributed part of the WAU decline to making notifications 'smarter' after user feedback.
Nextdoor opens verified accounts for local journalists
Nextdoor opened early access to Local Journalist Accounts, giving reporters at established local outlets a verified, named presence in the neighborhoods they cover, after a three-month pilot with 75+ journalists in Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and Billings, Montana.
Nextdoor authorizes new $100 million buyback after $28.7 million first-quarter repurchases
Reporting Q1 2026 revenue of $62 million (up 14%) and a net loss of $11 million, Nextdoor announced a new share repurchase authorization of up to $100 million through June 2028. Its Q2 filing shows it had repurchased about 17 million shares for $28.7 million in the first half of 2026, all in the first quarter, while research and development spending fell 5% on lower headcount.
Nextdoor reaches record 22.9 million weekly users as revenue grows 15%
Nextdoor reported Q2 2026 Platform WAU of 22.9 million, an all-time high up 5% year over year, revenue of $75 million (up 15%) and $10 million adjusted EBITDA. On the call management said ad load was stable, ARPU growth came mainly from pricing, self-serve ads were about 67% of revenue, and contributions (posts, comments, unique posters) reached a multiyear high.
Paying for business access becomes top complaint in Nextdoor app reviews
Unstar's analysis of 383 recent one- to three-star Nextdoor reviews (April 25 to August 12, 2026) found the largest theme, 25.3%, was people who used to answer neighbors for free being asked to pay; its share of negative reviews rose from 13% in June to 35% in early August. Reviewers reported prices from $80 to over $1,000 a month and said no published rate was shown before they were asked to pay. Other themes were unexplained account suspensions, ads in the feed and notifications that could not be turned off.
Nextdoor bars business self-promotion from personal accounts
Nextdoor announced that promoting a business, service or paid opportunity must now happen from a Business Page, not a personal account, covering posts, comments and unsolicited messages, with casual offers allowed once a month. It said posting from a Business Page is free and that its paid Opportunity Alerts lead subscription and ads were unaffected. It acknowledged that its pattern-based system can flag neighbors' recommendations in error, and that flagged posts are shown to fewer neighbors.
Evidence (48 citations)
D1: User Value Erosion
D2: Business Customer Exploitation
D3: Shareholder Extraction
D4: Lock-in & Switching Costs
D5: Twiddling & Algorithmic Opacity
D6: Dark Patterns
D7: Advertising & Monetization Pressure
D8: Competitive Conduct
D9: Labor & Governance
D10: Regulatory & Legal Posture
Scoring Log (8 entries)
Checked 76 items + prose. 29 verified, 32 corrected (8 date-only), 6 re-sourced, 9 removed (1 duplicate, 1 wrong entity, 4 junk/contradicted, 3 unsupported). Invented: 'very spammy' quote attributed to CEO Tolia (Localogy analyst wrote it); ads ~80% of revenue (10-K: substantially all); $340K FEC lobbying (Senate LDA: none before Q3 2021, no FEC); SMB/Local Deals +45% in 2024 (content farms only); 'University of Houston psychologist' (Deseret quotes Temple/Rutgers experts); 'Series H' (Crunchbase: Series F); Q2 2025 WAU 'dipped' (release: +1% YoY). Also fixed Q2 2020 vs 2021 results, Diginomica/BuzzFeed/Deseret/Taylor.town dates, Streetlife privacy claim, $192.2M revenue year (2021), AOC timing.
57→50. Since Feb 2026: Q4-25 WAU -5% then record 22.9M WAU in Q2-26 with stable ad load (company); resumed buybacks ($28.7M Q1-26, new $100M program); Aug 2026 ban on business self-promotion from personal accounts plus paid Opportunity Alerts drew business backlash; securities suit dismissed Nov 2025; SPAC suit pending. Historical: buybacks ($77M by Feb 2024, $75.5M in 2024 during $98M loss) were missing; lobbying terminated Apr 2025. D1 7→5 (recalibration: record WAU, 4.5-4.7 lifetime store ratings, core utility intact; 'very spammy' was analyst not CEO), D2 5→6 (event: Aug 2026 self-promotion rule + paid lead alerts, review backlash, petition), D4 6→5 (recalibration: easy multi-homing to FB Groups/subreddits/Ring Neighbors), D5 6→5 (recalibration: transparency reports, Post Insights, flag notices offset engagement ranking), D6 7→6 (recalibration: obstructive notifications but no enforcement or cancellation trap; notifications being cut since late 2025), D7 6→5 (recalibration: no consumer paywall, ad load stable per company), D8 4→3 (recalibration: one small acquisition 2017, no antitrust), D9 5→6 (event/new facts: layoffs in 2023/2024/2025 concurrent with buybacks, 69.55% insider voting power, 2024 harassment report), D10 5→3 (correction: fact audit removed $340K FEC lobbying premise; lobbying small and ended Apr 2025, no enforcement). D3 unchanged at 6 (now supported by buyback record). Eras: 'Community Utility' re-dated 2011-10-01→2011-10-26 (launch); 'First Ads & Expansion' re-dated 2017-04-01→2016-08-01 (first US ad program); 'Post-SPAC Pressure' re-dated 2021-11-01→2021-11-05 (listing); 'Founder Returns' re-dated 2024-02-01→2024-02-23 (Tolia return + $250M buyback); current era re-dated 2026-02-11→2025-07-15 (NEXT redesign) and relabeled 'Ad Platform Pivot'→'NEXT Redesign Turnaround'; 'Pandemic Growth' kept. All eras re-scored. Category 'Social Media' fits.
Checked 8 removed/trimmed claims: 0 restored, 0 partly restored, 7 confirmed removed, 1 already present. ALREADY PRESENT: HBR 'platform dominance' item - its only true sub-claim (markets in UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Australia) is already in timeline[11] via Crunchbase 2019-05-14; the HBR article (2018-05-11) covers racial profiling only, and the $470M funding figure is contradicted (TechCrunch: $285M in Oct 2018; Crunchbase: $408.2M after the 2019 round); outspending/first-mover framing unsupported. CONFIRMED REMOVED: $340K FEC lobbying (Senate LDA filings already in file contradict it); PurePrivacy 2025 notification dark patterns (PurePrivacy and InboxPurge guides say nothing of the kind; InboxPurge describes category toggles plus full unsubscribe; 60-day feed reversion already in prose from other sources); Friar 'advertising expertise'/'aggressive monetization' (TechCrunch 2018-10-10 says neither); Q2 2020 new ad formats/targeting (2021 release and searches show no such Q2 2020 launch); BuzzFeed volunteer-moderation inability (article only quotes Nextdoor on neighborhood leads plus automated detection, already in description); MatrixBCG 65% market share (URL 404, content farm, no reputable support); cambridgeanalytica.org content-farm evidence.
Triaged 2026-06-30 (Wave A); no rescore warranted (no material change / changes sub-threshold / flag refuted on verification).
Added 2 timeline events for coverage gaps (D4, D9 in 2008-2011 era)